Random quiz time!

[deathpixie]

Sent to me by my dad. :)

1. Name the one sport in which neither the spectators nor the participants know the score or the leader until the contest ends. Boxing


2. What famous North American landmark is constantly moving backward? Niagara Falls


3. Of all vegetables, only two can live to produce on their own for several growing seasons. All other vegetables must be replanted every year. What are the only two perennial vegetables? Rhubarb and asparagus


4. What fruit has its seeds on the outside? Strawberry


5. In many liquor stores, you can buy pear brandy, with a real pear inside the bottle. The pear is whole and ripe, and the bottle is genuine; it hasn't been cut in any way. How did the pear get inside the bottle? It grew inside the bottle (The bottles are placed over pear buds when they are small, and are wired in place on the tree. The bottle is left in place for the entire growing season. When the pears are ripe, they are snipped off at the stems.)


6. Only three words in standard English begin with the letters "dw" and they are all common words. Name two of them. Dwarf, dwell, dwindle.


7. There are 14 punctuation marks in English grammar. Can you name at least half of them? Period,comma, colon, semicolon, dash, hyphen, apostrophe, question mark, exclamation point, quotation marks, brackets, parenthesis, braces, and ellipses.


8. Name the only vegetable or fruit that is never sold frozen, canned, processed, cooked, or in any other form except fresh. Lettuce


9. Name 6 or more things that you can wear on your feet beginning with the letter "S." Shoes, socks, sandals, sneakers, slippers, skis, skates, snowshoes, stockings, stilts.

Comments

[kitchendinah.livejournal.com]

I seriously have no idea. These are all guesses.

1.) Extreme rocks-paper-scissors?

2.) Um.

3.) Onions and potatoes

4.) Strawberry

5.) Well, see, when it's a wee pear still on the tree, farmers slip bottles over the fruit and tie them to the branches until the pears can hold their own weight....

Actually it's probably something more along the lines of rehydration of dried, ripened fruits, yeah? (If one can rehydrate with brandy, that is.)

6.) dwell and dwarf

7.) comma, period, semi-colon, quotation mark, hyphen, question mark, exclamation mark, apostrophe, colon, tilde

8.) I wanna say avocado or banana, but I think lettuce, actually.

9.) sock, shoe, sandal, skate, silk stockings, slipper

[faithfulpuppy85.livejournal.com]

lettuce can be processed when they put it in the bags. Bananas are processed if you consider dried bananas. I don't know that I've seen avocados sold any other way but fresh. Unless you consider guacomole. But then it isn't an avocado anymore really.